Images turning pale/colder after you save screenshot

lasseedsvik · **Joined:** Jul 26, 2022 **Posts:** 8

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

I have a weird problem...

Images turning pale/colder after you save screenshot...

Image/screenshot look great in Gimp. But after I save it to jpg (full quality), or png 32-bit, or .tiff....

Colors are slightly more blue and colder....

Why is that happening?

I tried doing the same with Paint.NET and same result...

Something is wrong.... I worry its some global setting....

Haaalp!

EDIT: It's usually a screenshot pasted into Gimp so it has no alpha channel or things like that added to it

David Wood · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:09 pm **(#2)**

If you're on Windows using the default photo viewer is has a really annoying auto-adjust feature you can't turn off. Same thing happens to me whether it's something I made in Gimp or a photo uploaded from my camera.

lasseedsvik · **Joined:** Jul 26, 2022 **Posts:** 8

I think I solved it.

I removed my icc profile.

Weird since it was from a highly recommended site:

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/ ... g274qrf-qd

They say like "don't use these every monitor is unique even if its the same model"....... I call BS on that...

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

The idea of an ICC profile is that the same RGB value will produce exactly the same color on all displays that have a proper ICC profile (I'm using two screens, and one has more saturated color than the other). And AFAIK when you do a screenshot, you are really capturing the initial RGB value, so what it looks like will depend on the use of the ICC profile.